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well the thing is the entire GF4 line up in general were kinda lackluster. The R300, 9500/9700 Pros were just utterly dominate. The scores below are from what I've tested so far on my 3.6Ghz P4 northwood. Even the FX line up struggled to compete with the ATI cards back then. It took the 6800 series to finally get nvidia back the crown.

Keep in mind as well that R300 came out later. Only a few months later, but NV25 did hit the scene first and was considered the benchmark to beat, so R300 had to be faster. The GeForce FX series was a disaster from the start due to nVidia trying to cash in on the 3Dfx acquisition by pushing that design team to create a "feature rich" architecture on a new node that could stretch enough to beat R300. They completely fucked themselves with their SM2.0 implementation and giving ATi time to refine R350 and R360 by waiting for 130nm.

Gigabyte card did work on my Rampage II Extreme, however only in Single GPU mode (I forced PCIe "x8" from BIOS), and with second card for POST screen and driver install (GPU "starts" only from Windows Desktop).
Sadly, I don't have MB with native support for it (yet)

Radeon HD 5770 ES from around May 25, 2009. The card itself has suffered some extreme damages; missing caps, busted vreg, gouged PCB, torn up traces, bent crossfire finger. It's a mess, and well above my skill level to repair. The most interesting (and still functional) part if this card is the cooler. Below is a comparison to the similar in style but completely different Radeon HD 4770 reference cooler.

The heatsink design of this sample is the same as the final revision 5770; a finstack on top of a thin vapor chamber. The fan housing is physically the same as the 4770 reference, however the fan, air channel, and shroud have all been changed. This card gives a glimpse into the design work behind even a low-end product. While it'll probably never function again as a GPU I'll be keeping this one in the
collection.

Edit: Upon reassembly of both cards I noticed that the 4770 shown is actually newer than the 5770 ES with a PCB date of 0926 and ASIC date of 0933, 6 weeks and 11 weeks newer respectively. The 5770 ES was labeled by June 29, 2009 (week 27) almost a month and a half before the 4770's ASIC would be fused. Interesting trivia.

3D1 has two fans and it's noisy, 7900 GX2 can get loud after it get's heated while playing.
GTX 275 is a bit quiter than single PCB GTX 295 (since it uses the same coolling and mostly PCB, while not using SLI).
I don't have a sound meter, so can't tell you exact dB.

my collections grown slight over the past few months. think there is a couple voodoo cards not in these photos that im testing in my win98 build atm. I picked up a voodoo 3 2000 pci & another set of voodoo 2's.

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Lucky! It's hard to find a 275 co-op nowadays. Last time I saw one, it was on Amazon for like £100 And lucky once more to have a working 7900 GX2. I have the faulty Quadro variant, missing a load of surface mount caps and such. Which actually brings up a nice question, would you mind helping me in a while if I sent pictures of what was missing and you could measure the values of what I needed?

I have the faulty Quadro variant, missing a load of surface mount caps and such. Which actually brings up a nice question, would you mind helping me in a while if I sent pictures of what was missing and you could measure the values of what I needed?

Grabbed up another sample, this time it's a GTX 295 V2! Very late sample that appears to have undergone quite a few revisions on its own.

BIOS date is May 2, 2009 which means it's not got any special cut features packed in or anything. The ASICs on the other hand are from well before the original GTX 295 retail release, having a date stamp around November 24 - 30, 2008. The ASICs also carry a few different numbers written on, the most visible of which is 127. Both carry another number that does not match, although those are not legible. So far a stable card that has had no irregular performance compared to a retail card.